Photo: Close-up of the cover of 'The London Burial Grounds: Notes on their history from the earliest times to the present day'
A grave endeavour: Sue McCarthy on Isabella Gladstone
‘On the whole, Isabella was complimentary about Quakers.’
by Sue McCarthy
2nd May 2025
If anyone reading Andrew Backhouse’s ‘Down to earth’ (18 April) needs further inspiration to explore our Quaker burial grounds, they may find it in an account from ‘Mrs Basil Holmes’ of her graveyard hunting in London in the 1880s and 1890s.
